@Gargron Patents are just stupid... You invent one thing and patent it and leech of it until you die... That is just wrong in many ways. Not good for progress.

@gargron Yeah ... I couldn't believe what I was reading. Trying to make a fortune off hospitals who need the supplies to treat patients. We can be judging harshly the company all day long but we don't know what's like to be on their side of things.

@Gargron that's why we need communism

@Gargron Related twitter thread on safety issues (not defending the medical company): https://twitter.com/turzaak/status/1239544498553860096

@Gargron

This is why patent and copyright laws are proven to be illegal.

It is also why equipment that I have designed for disabled people over the years have not been forwarded to any companies for production.

Any company that I could, or would, approach would price them out of the reach of those who would benefit from them.

Capitalism is cruelty.

@Gargron I found that news deeply disturbing, but not entirely surprising given that that firm was stupid enough to buy IP from Theranos. There's always some patent trolls looming in this business...and they should be destroyed.